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Hydrostaticks; or, the weight, force, and pressure of fluid bodies: made evident by physical and sensible experiments. Together with some miscellany observations, the last whereof is a short history of coal, and of all the common, and proper, accidents thereof; a subject never treated of
793:. London: David Nutt. pp. 55-56. "In this affair a boy called Thomas, a son of the unlucky householder, was clearly the agent. The phenomena were stone-throwing, beating with sticks, levitation of a plate, and a great deal of voices, probably uttered by the aforesaid Thomas."
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Cacus pulled out of his den by the heels, or the pamphlet entitled, the New and Great Art of
Weighing Vanity examined, and found to be a New and Great Act of Vanity.
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Craik, A.D.D. & Spittle, D., 2018, Royal
Society Journal of the History of Science 73(1), The hydrostatical works of George Sinclair (c. 1630–1696): an addendum
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Society Journal of the History of Science 72(3), he hydrostatical works of George Sinclair (c.1630–1696): their neglect and criticism
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trickery. The story was given to
Sinclair by Campbell's son Thomas, a philosophy student from a college in Glasgow who was living at the household. Folklorist
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chair, then moved to a chair founded for mathematics. He helped to fund the building of
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incident known as the Devil of
Glenluce. Sinclair described the incident as having a "usefulness for refuting atheism."
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in 1640, on the occasion in 1650 when he moved to Edinburgh. This was pointed out in short order.
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suggested that Thomas had produced the phenomena fraudulently.
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In the Name of the Devil: Great Scottish Witchcraft Cases
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in which he treats the strata in purely geometric terms.
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obtaining a Master of Arts degree from there in 1649.
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Professor of Mathematics at the University of Glasgow
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The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies
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16:Scottish mathematician, engineer and demonologist
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409:The New and Great Art of Heaviness and Lightness
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321:suggested that the phenomena was the result of
243:Being a Presbyterian, and failing to take the
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269:. He first proposed this in a Latin work on
946:. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
807:The Longman Anthology of British Literature
679:"Mathematics in Glasgow University in 1883"
580:. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
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131:Satan's Invisible World Discovered (1685)
19:For other people with the same name, see
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377:The New and Great Art of Weighing Vanity
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261:Sinclair invented an early example of a
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430:In 1684 he published as his own a work
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129:Truth's Victory over Error (1684)
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209:. He studied at the
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344:Geological pioneer
317:. Magic historian
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245:oath of allegiance
163:, he is known for
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